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	ISCID - Alvin Plantinga
		Plantinga came to the University of Notre Dame from Calvin College in1982, where he had been teaching philosophy since 1963.
		Professor Plantinga has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Boston University, Indiana University, the University of California at Los Angeles, Syracuse University, Oxford University and the University of Arizona.
		A world-renowned philosopher and a specialist in the philosophy of epistemology, Alvin Plantinga has published more than 12 books and more than 100 articles in professional publications, many of which have been translated into other languages, including Dutch, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Chinese and Japanese.
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	Alvin Plantinga - ResearchID.org
		Alvin Cornelius Plantinga was born on 15 November 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
		Plantinga won a scholarship to Harvard University, but left in 1951 to study at Calvin College (Grand Rapids), where William Harry Jellema was teaching Philosophy.
		Plantinga's argument contends that natural selection, as it is currently understood, is not thought to produce in organisms the ability to reliably perceive the external world — let alone construct accurate cosmologies.
	www.researchintelligentdesign.org /wiki/Alvin_Plantinga (417 words)

	Alvin Plantinga
		Plantinga was able to do quite a bit of this during his academic career.
		Professor Plantinga was awarded an Honorary Degree by Glasgow University in 1982, by Calvin College in 1986, by North Park College in 1994, by the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1995, by Brigham Young University in 1996, and by Valparaiso University in 1999.
		Alvin Plantinga was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 15, 1932.
	www.nnp.org /nni/Publications/Dutch-American/plantinga.html (704 words)

	Alvin Plantinga
		Alvin Plantinga (born 15 November, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan of Swedish ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in metaphysics and in the philosophy of religion.
		Plantinga won a 'fat scolarship' to Harvard University, but left it in 1951 to study at Calvin College (Grand Rapids), where William Henry Jellema was teaching philosophy.
		Alvin Plantinga is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/al/alvin_plantinga.html (324 words)

	Plantinga, Proper Basicality, and Fideism
		Plantinga begins his essay by describing what he calls the "evidentialist" objection to belief in God, in which it is held that belief in God is only capable of being justified if there is sufficient evidence of the existence of the Divine.
		Plantinga here seems to argue for a view of proper basicality that is conditioned by environmental as well as social circumstances, since he subsequently claims that the claims for proper basicality may not, and indeed in the case of theistic claims will not, be accepted.
		Plantinga appears to make PB a function of community belief in his claims to be independent of the epistemic norms of the atheistic community, responsible only to the epistemic norms of the Christian community.
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	Notes on Plantinga's "Free Will Defense"
		Plantinga notes that some might find this response to be an unpersuasive, "tricky and irrelevant." There are, however, other examples, but more to the point, Mackie's charge is that the original set A, when subjected to logical examination, is obviously incoherent.
		Plantinga suggests that perhaps there are other propositions, which when placed in conjunction with set (A') might yield a formally contradictory set.
		Plantinga now attempts to show that there is not a logical inconsistency with set A. To accomplish this, he will need to find a proposition which describes a possible state of affairs, which if it were actual, then all of the members of A would be true.
	www.baylor.edu /~Scott_Moore/handouts/free_will_defense.html (1014 words)

	Chi Alpha @ Stanford » Blog Archive » Alvin Plantinga Speaking This Thursday at 7:30pm
		Alvin Plantinga, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame.
		Plantinga is perhaps best known for his work in the field of epistemology, and recent publications include a trilogy on the subject, consisting in Warrant: the Current Debate, Warrant and Proper Function, and Warranted Christian Belief.
		Alvin Plantinga is one of my personal heroes, and I cannot speak highly enough of his contributions to Christian philosophy and the Body of Christ as a whole.
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	hell’s handmaiden » Blog Archive » Alvin Plantinga… hmm, never really liked Plantinga
		Plantinga suggests that the judge legislated that “the scientific community has successfully refuted the criticism of unguided evolution brought by the IDers” and this is utterly false.
		Plantinga believes that “we can easily see that propositions about supernatural beings not being verifiable or falsifiable isn’t true at all.” To this end he argues that “the statement “God has designed 800-pound rabbits that live in Cleveland” is clearly testable, clearly falsifiable and indeed clearly false.” He is wrong.
		For evidence of the truth of the second of his two prongs, Plantinga offers the statement that “There is at least one electron” as a statement that is certainly scientific though he claims that it is neither verifiable nor falsifiable, adding that individual statements, as a general rule, are not verifiable or falsifiable.
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	Philosophy Now (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plantinga's modal version, however, claims that God is a logically necessary being and then moves from the alleged possibility of God's necessary existence to God's actual necessary existence.
		This is due to the pioneering work of Alvin Plantinga (you guessed it), who has shown that it is impossibly difficult to establish any sound proof of God's non-existence using this argument.
		In particular, if Plantinga is right, it shifts the burden of proof onto the atheist: if she wants to show that the theist is irrational then she will have to show that the theist has not been designed by God to believe in God.
	www.philosophynow.org /archive/articles/21hill.htm (2788 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: On Alvin Plantinga's Notion of the Divine Nature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plantinga also seems to be very generous in his application of the term property, a tendency which he at least alludes to in his recognition that he is want to "take the term 'property' in the very broad sense presently customary"
		Plantinga refers to the significant fact that Aquinas and Plantinga are in fact operating under different ontological perspectives, but as pertaining to his discussion of Aquinas he concludes, "In some contexts this difference may be significant and we must bear it in mind.
		Plantinga's pause and reflection evidences a need for further investigation into the underlying presuppositions and theories of both thinkers, with the hope that despite apparent language and conceptual gaps, a consensus might be achieved whereby the parts are fulfilled in their participation in the whole.
	www.quodlibet.net /plantinga.shtml (6480 words)

	Alvin Plantinga Summary
		Alvin Plantinga has made wide-ranging, vigorously discussed contributions to many topics in the philosophy of religion, the metaphysics of modality and associated issues in the philosophy of logic, and epistemology.
		Plantinga, Alvin(1932–) Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Alvin Plantinga is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
		Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 November, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.
	www.bookrags.com /Alvin_Plantinga (155 words)

	Mind over Skepticism: Philosopher Alvin Plantinga defeats 2 challenges to Christian faith [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
		Plantinga continues by lobbing several well-aimed grenades at what he calls the "Freud-Marx Complaint," the commonly encountered jab at Christianity as mere wish fulfillment, as the projection of a heavenly Father on the blank canvas of the universe.
		Plantinga, then, has established the intellectual grounds for Christians to continue to believe in God, and particularly the God of historic orthodoxy, in the face of the two most daunting philosophical challenges of this century.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b326ce47a7d.htm (4198 words)

	Introduction: The Resurrection of Theism
		Plantinga's work in the area of religious epistemology is very welcome, for he adroitly manages to steer his ship between the Charybdis of theological rationalism (Plantinga calls it "evidentialism") and the Scylla of fideism in a way that is wholly consonant with biblical teaching.
		Granted, Plantinga asserts that the theist in such a predicament may instead abandon belief in one of the argument's premises or in the argument form itself, but the fact remains that if the theist has a greater degree of belief in those premises and argument forms, then it will be theism that must go.
		On Plantinga's view, the theistic youngster, however, enjoys the advantage that as he matures intellectually his belief in God may be sustained and reinforced by his being in the sort of circumstances that rationally warrant his believing that God exists.
	www.leaderu.com /truth/3truth01.html (7350 words)

	Plantinga, Alvin (1932–) \| Encyclopedia of Philosophy
		Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Alvin Plantinga is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
		Plantinga earned his BA in philosophy and psychology from Calvin College in 1953, and he cites his experience at Calvin as perhaps the single most significant intellectual influence in his life.
		Plantinga's work in the philosophy of religion has focused on what is sometimes referred to as "negative apologetics": the task of showing that objections to religious belief are unsuccessful.
	www.bookrags.com /research/plantinga-alvin-1932-eoph (1340 words)

	Protestant philosopher at Notre Dame carves out intellectual room for God and miracles North County Times - North San ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plantinga's best work is clear but hardly popular fare; it's filled with modal logic and letter formulas that summarize the steps in his rigorous arguments.
		Plantinga argues that common sense and science know that such things are true ---- and that they employ personal sympathy, memory, perception and intuition in the process.
		Plantinga says this also poses a problem for atheism, under which it is hard to see how there can really be such a thing as evil if the cosmos lacks a moral structure, besides which everyone believes evil and good are real.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/03/24/special_reports/religion/22_40_313_23_05.txt (1654 words)

	Amazon.de: Warranted Christian Belief: English Books: Alvin Plantinga (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga's trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief.
		Plantinga has devoted his scholarly life to answer the question whether the Christian faith can be justified, and this book is the fruit of forty years of excellent work.
		Plantinga think that the truth of Christian faith cannot be demonstrated or proven, but he provides coherent and compelling reasons that faith is a sufficient justification for Christian belief.
	www.amazon.de /Warranted-Christian-Belief-Alvin-Plantinga/dp/0195131932 (672 words)

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		Plantinga is one of the leading contemporary philosophers and arguably the most significant philosopher of religion in recent times.
		Alvin Plantinga's philosophical work has spanned half a century and has influenced the whole of the philosophical world, among theistic and non-theistic thinkers alike.
		In all of these selections Plantinga's trademarks are evident: his sharp wit, his use of humor, his lucid writing style and, most importantly, a weighty clear-headedness that is the mark of any good analytic philosopher.
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	Evolution News & Views: Philosopher Alvin Plantinga Demolishes Part of Kitzmiller Decision
		Plantinga has concerns about a judge attempting to settle disputes by “judicial declaration” or “judicial fiat.” Plantinga then goes on to analyze some of the reasoning Judge Jones used to support his overly-bold claims.
		Plantinga first recalls how difficult it has been for philosophers to come up with a decent definition and analysis of falsification or verification (concepts that Judge Jones assumes to be true for his argument).
		Plantinga’s article catalogues a number of other proposed constraints on the definition of science; all of which make the point that science being constrained by methodological naturalism (as Jones did in Kitzmiller) is anything but a self-evident truth.
	www.evolutionnews.org /2006/03/philosopher_alvin_plantinga_de.html (1131 words)

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		Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge.
		Plantinga a leading contemporary philosopher in the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of religion.
		Plantinga uses warrant more or less synonymously with justification and seeks to understand how it might be achieved.
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	Alvin Plantinga - ResearchID.org
		Plantinga won a scholarship to Harvard University, but left in 1951 to study at Calvin College (Grand Rapids), where William Harry Jellema was teaching Philosophy.
		Plantinga's argument contends that natural selection, as it is currently understood, is not thought to produce in organisms the ability to reliably perceive the external world — let alone construct accurate cosmologies.
		She insists that the most important thing about the human brain is that it has evolved; this means, she says, that its principal function is to enable the organism to move appropriately: Boiled down to essentials, a nervous system enables the organism to succeed in the four F's: feeding, fleeing, fighting and reproducing.
	www.researchid.org /wiki/Alvin_Plantinga (417 words)

	ALVIN PLANTINGA Articles Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 Novem
		Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 November 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and tentative support of intelligent design.
		Plantinga initially attended Harvard University, but in 1951 left for Calvin College in Michigan to study under William Harry Jellema.
		In 1993 Plantinga's first two volumes of an epistemological trilogy on the concept of warrant were published.
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	Notes on Plantinga's "Free Will Defense"
		Plantinga notes that some might find this response to be an unpersuasive, "tricky and irrelevant." There are, however, other examples, but more to the point, Mackie's charge is that the original set A, when subjected to logical examination, is obviously incoherent.
		Plantinga suggests that perhaps there are other propositions, which when placed in conjunction with set (A') might yield a formally contradictory set.
		Plantinga now attempts to show that there is not a logical inconsistency with set A. To accomplish this, he will need to find a proposition which describes a possible state of affairs, which if it were actual, then all of the members of A would be true.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Scott_Moore/handouts/free_will_defense.html (1014 words)

	The Analytic Theist
		Plantinga himself, an evangelical Calvinist, has served as President of the American Philosophical Association, and was invited to give the prestigious Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1987.
		Largely as a result of Plantinga’s influence, the Christian philosophers’ earlier beleaguered posture, resulting from their perpetually unsuccessful attempts at trying to meet the skeptic’s insatiable demand for “sufficiently credible” empirical evidence and rational verification for their beliefs, has become a thing of the past.
		Instead of agreeing to play according to the rules set by the opposition, Plantinga disputes the rules, claiming that they indefensibly restrict the beliefs that qualify as properly basic, and that belief in God can sometimes be perfectly rational even without being based on an inference or argument.
	www.lrc.edu /rel/blosser/Plantinga.htm (1397 words)

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